August 2010
10 posts
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Aug 31st
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An addendum to the last post: It occurs to me that Apple taking the lion’s share of the profits from the mobile phone industry means something else to investors: It means they know what to do to take that profit. They “skate where the puck will be”, and have proved that their guess was accurate. Betting on high quality phones, touchscreens for fully costumizable user...
Aug 25th
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“In only one year Android’s smartphone market share catapulted from 1.8% to 17.2%...”
– Apple: Short Term Winner, Long Term Loser (hat tip to John Gruber) Interesting that they use units shipped and market share to determine that Apple isn’t a good investment. How about revenue? Last I checked, Apple was making a ridiculous percentage of the gross profits earned in the...
Aug 25th
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Anonymous asked: Hi Alan,

My name is Wim Haanstra and I have a question about the AQGridView you created. The grid is awesome, but I think I am doing something wrong somewhere.

This is what I do to get the grid filled:

- I have a NSMutableArray where I put in objects (for example UIImage objects).
- When the grid executes "numberOfItemsInGridView", I...
Aug 22nd
Anonymous asked: My question pertains more to object-oriented design in a way. I wanted to know your thoughts on replicating something the Photos app interface on the iPad. You have a grid of albums (AlbumsViewController) that can expand into a new grid of photos (PhotosViewController). The transition seems to be seamless. How would you do something like that (using something like AQGridView for the grids) while...
Aug 16th
Anonymous asked: I just updated to Snow Leopard and the new xcode and iPhone iOS. Now almost all my sample code I was playing with says "Base SDK Missing" Can I get the previous SDK's back?
Aug 12th
Aug 6th
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Aug 5th
mayafish: jaydensmommie: Shut up. Look around you. Appreciate where you are. No, everything’s not great, but does that mean nothing is? Enjoy what you have. Not because others don’t have it, screw that. They aren’t your problem. I’m not telling you to eat your dinner because there are starving children in Africa. I’m telling you to eat it because it’s good. Amen.
Aug 3rd
zahadum asked: what happened to your BackRow sdk?

it seems very dormant :(

cf: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/BackRow_Developers%27_Kit (2007)
Aug 2nd